MGIC Investment Corporation Schedules 4th Quarter 2018 Earnings Call and Releases Monthly Operating Statistics

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Jan 09, 2019, 06:45 ET

MILWAUKEE, Jan. 9, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- MGIC Investment Corporation (NYSE: MTG) has announced plans to release its 4^th quarter 2018 financial results before the market opens on Thursday, January 17, 2019. A conference call/webcast has been scheduled for 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time to discuss the Company's results for the quarter ended December 31, 2018.

Individuals interested in joining over the phone should dial 1-866-834-4126 ten minutes before the conference call begins. The call is also being webcast and can be accessed via the company's website http://mtg.mgic.com under Newsroom. A replay of the webcast will be available on the company's website through February 17, 2019.

MGIC also today issued an Operational Summary of its insurance subsidiaries for the month of December 2018 for their primary mortgage insurance. The summary is also available on the company's website under Newsroom, Press Releases.

The information concerning new delinquency notices and cures is compiled from reports received from loan servicers. The level of new notice and cure activity reported in a particular month can be influenced by, among other things, the date on which a servicer generates its report, the accuracy of the data provided by servicers, the number of business days in a month, transfers of servicing between loan servicers, and whether all servicers have provided the reports in a given month.

	December 2018		December 2017		Change

Insurance in force (billions)	$	209.7	$	194.9	7.6%
Flow only	$	202.9	$	186.9	8.6%

Beginning Primary Delinquent Inventory (# of loans)	33,314		46,900		(29.0%)
Plus: New Delinquency Notices (1)	4,752		6,098		(22.1%)
Less: Cures	4,389		5,883		(25.4%)
Less: Paids	428		526		(18.6%)
Less: Rescissions and Denials	16		33		(51.5%)
Less: Items removed from inventory (2)	335		—		N/M
Ending Primary Delinquent Inventory (# of loans)	32,898		46,556		(29.3%)


(1)	December 2017 new delinquency notices were impacted by hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria, which occurred in August - September 2017. The number of new delinquency notices from geographical areas that the Federal Emergency Management Agency declared Individual Assistance Disaster Areas as a result of those hurricanes were 559 in December 2018, 1,375 in December 2017, and 698 in December 2016.

(2)	Consists of loans whose insurance was terminated by agreement to settle coverage on certain non-performing loans. The agreement did not have a material financial impact.

About MGIC

Mortgage Guaranty Insurance Corporation "MGIC" (www.mgic.com), the principal subsidiary of MGIC Investment Corporation, serves lenders throughout the United States, Puerto Rico, and other locations helping families achieve homeownership sooner by making affordable low-down-payment mortgages a reality. At December 31, 2018, MGIC had $209.7 billion of primary insurance in force covering over one million mortgages.

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SOURCE MGIC Investment Corporation